So It Goes may refer to:
- a British music programme hosted by Tony Wilson
- a recurring refrain in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five
- a song by Nick Lowe from Jesus of Cool
- a song by The Verve from A Northern Soul
- an amateur music blog

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Out Magazine lists the '100 Greatest, Gayest Album of All Time'

Now this is a fantastic idea for a list. Out Magazine polled gay artists from all across the industry to come up with the 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums. There are oddities among certain selections but it's much easier to complain about omissions (no Depeche Mode?!). All the same, I find the results are mighty impressive as these kind of lists go.

What was the criteria? The list was not limited to only albums by queer musicians, but rather anything that had relevance in the life of those polled could qualify. Or as Out Magazine put it, it's a list of "the seminal, flamboyant, trailblazing, gender-bending, campy, theatrical, audacious, unforgettable albums that changed our lives."

Congrats to Madonna and Morissey/The Smiths who tied for most albums on the list. I was most pleased with the #1 selection of David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, one of my personal all-time favorites.